Re: [office-formula] tinv and friends

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Thursday, 2007-07-19 14:31:07 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> In the current draft functions such as TINV require the degree of
> freedom to be an integer that is at least 1. Our don't see a
> mathematical reason for the "integer" requirement.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't degrees of freedom the number of
parameters that can vary? How much sense would one and a half parameter
make?

> Is there some other reason?

The spreadsheet applications I checked (Calc, Gnumeric, Excel; Kspread
1.5.0 seems not to have it) deliver identical results for fractional
values as if truncated to an integer.

  Eike

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